Philo and Paul Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement

by Bruce W. Winter

In this highly acclaimed work, Bruce Winter gathers for the first time all the available evidence on the first-century sophistic movement from two major centers of learning in the East. Together with the writings of the contemporary Hellenistic Jews, Philo and Paul, he discusses all the protagonists and antagonists of this movement in Alexandria and Corinth. This study provides important insights into the problems that this elitist movement created...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802839770
• ISBN13: 9780802839770
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"